Django custom user model in admin, relation “auth_user” does not exist

Question

I have a custom user model as below:

class User(AbstractUser):
    subscribe_newsletters = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    old_id = models.IntegerField         


        

Answer 1

I had to:

1. delete the database
2. create a new database
3. delete all migrations from all models
4. make migrations anew
5. migrate

It was double annoying because I had to do it on local and remote server. I tried just deleting migrations or deleting the database but then git would push/pull the old migrations and messed everything up.

P.S. This bug initially arose because I ran the migrations before adding AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'customauth.MyUser' to the settings.py file, which is not version controlled.